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I have a Nikon D-40 digital camera. What would be best to use for storing and editing my photos?

We just got a new computer with Windows Vista. I have the software that came with the Nikon camera, we also have Windows photo gallery on our computer and a Windows XP version of Adobe Photoshop elements (would that run ok on Windows Vista?) Which program would be best?

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1. Probably need a newer version of Elements. You might check Adobe's website to find out what is compatible with Vista. I believe that Photoshop Elements 6 for the PC came out very recently and it may work with Vista. I suspect the software from the D40 probably won't work on Vista and it's probably pretty basic as far as how much editing you can do. Good luck!
2. editing your photos: any number of programs. instead of the nikon software, you can use windows to store your images and use a card reader. That way, you don't need the camera and it's power to transfer images.
3. Interestingly enough, I have Elements 2.0 and it seems to work with Vista just fine. Elements is not super powerful, but it sure gets many jobs done just fine.
4. I have the Canon XTi 400D which is the sister camera to your Nikon. I store my pics on a jump drive and back up to a CD. I edit with an older version of elements. There are other free programs available too, like gimp. Enjoy your camera - and shoot shoot shoot
5. Storing: Google Picasa is the only way to go. It finds all the pics on your puter and cards and organizes them automatically. It's totally brilliant and totally free. Editing: I'll bet you can do about 80% of what you want to do on Picasa. For more complicated stuff, fire up Elephants. Don't forget to *back everything up* on CD or DVD! Hope this helps.
6. I use Adobe Photoshop CS2 running on Windows Vista and, apart from a persistent nag about registering it when I run as a limited user in Vista, it works fine.
7. Best is a subjective term. The good thing about having a lot of tools is that you can pick the one that is bets for you and not be stuck with "the only tool". I am using Photoshop CS2 in Vista and have had no problems thus far. My guess is that if you are using an older version of Elements, beyond version 5, and have a problem, Adobe will tell you to upgrade. If it's version 5 or 6, then I believe their are Vista certified downloads you can get for them. Storing and organizing images. I started doing this back on an old XP SP2 machine. Windows did not have an option, so I went third party. I tried a bunch of things. Picasa, iPhoto, ACDSee and a bunch more...even the Adobe free PhotoManager. After al lthe trials, I finally went with ACDSEE PhotoManager 9(they are up to version 10 now). It works fine with Vista after a patch is installed, is intuitive to me and I like the layout and options. One of the big things for me was that the tool had a way to back up the keywording and category database. I keep copies of the database on an external drive as well as on DVD. Another thing I like about the ACDSee tool is that it allows you to keep images on CD or DVD and it catalogues them by serial number imbedded on the disc. You can select the image you want in the program and it tells you what disc to insert into the drive to retrieve the full res image. Pretty handy. I've got about 6000 images catalogues and still going strong.